Hp 7520 works sporadically over wireless

[doncaruana]

Hoping someone can help here...

Had this HP 7520 running fine on my old router for a long time. Upgraded to the RT-AC68P and put Merlin on it. I don't know if it was anything to do with Merlin or the router itself, but that's when my printer issues started.

I've always had the printer on wireless G and a fixed IP address. But since the router upgrade, I can't regularly connect to it on my home network. I have eprint set up and, if I email it a document, that works fine. I can hit the web interface for the printer and that works fine. But if I just do a run-of-the-mill "print" on my computer, 9 times out of 10 it says it can't communicate. It might eventually work, but if I turn the printer off and then back on, it will connect. Also, if I got to the printer's web interface and print out a network config sheet, *then* it will work from my PC.

Have the same behavior from 4 different computers, all of which printed flawlessly before I switched routers.

I've turned off the auto-off on the printer so I know that's not it. But I'm just clearly stumped. Does anyone have any suggestions? Even on a way to maybe see more detailed logs somehow to see if the router is rejecting the traffic from the computer or the printer is would be helpful.

Thanks in advance!

 

[sfx2000]

This might help - configure the printer to use DHCP and then reserve/assign the address - and go into the HP util on the desktop and have it find the address...

Some HP printers do support IPv6, which I would probably disable.

hope this helps.

 

[doncaruana]

Thanks but both already addressed. IPv6 is off and the address is done via reservation like you suggest. The weird part seems to be that it's only traffic on the local network that has the issue. It can be refusing to print from every machine in the house and I can simply email a document and it prints. OR I can actually hit the local web interface for the printer and that prints as well. So I can be trying to print and it's saying it can't communicate while I'm actually using the same machine with a browser open to the web interface of the printer.

 

[doncaruana]

Even with the latest version of the firmware (380.57), I still have this issue. I'm not sure if this is because of the merlin firmware or this router in general. I never really tried it with the stock firmware. Anyone have any other suggestions before I revert to stock?

 

[doncaruana]

Even with the latest version of the firmware (380.57), I still have this issue. I'm not sure if this is because of the merlin firmware or this router in general. I never really tried it with the stock firmware. Anyone have any other suggestions before I revert to stock?

Been a while since I've been here. Reason is I finally gave up on the Asus router. Bought a Netgear Nighthawk X8 and plugged it in and all HP printer problems disappeared. Didn't have to change a thing. Last Asus router I'll own.